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Disabled 'to sue for Tube access'
Steve wrote the following in:
Does anybody why wheelchair users are allowed to travel for free? Actually, before you do, let me make one thing clear - I am all for making travel in London more accessible for wheelchair-bound and disabled people. I think we all agree on this point - why should they be discriminated against? But I have a problem with the fact that they are allowed to travel free? Is this not rather discriminatory in itself? The idea of a lot of accomodations for disabled people is that they put the disabled person in question on a 'level playing field'. For example a person who has difficulty writing by hand would be allowed to use a computer to type in an exam. This is because it makes their ability to write in the exam equal with that of a person who has no difficulty writing by hand. For wheelchair users, getting around is an inherently more expensive and difficult business requiring specialist equipment like wheelchairs or, for example, adaptations to cars (although I don't really know a great deal about the subject). By making travel on public transport free that helps make them equal with people who do not have to bear the extra costs associated with travel for wheelchair users. -- message by Robin May, enforcer of sod's law. "Dust Hill guy likes the Gordon clock" "You MUST NOT drive dangerously" - the Highway Code There are 20,000,000 women wearing kinky boots. |
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